The purpose of the study was to analyse the contribution made by the Holy Cross Sisters (HCS) to the educational empowerment of women in Zambia, from the viewpoint of their former pupils. The HCS were the only religious group chosen because it was the only group that established a senior...
Download PDF ↓Inculturation is an approach or method that has been used by the Roman Catholic Church to indigenise Catholicism especially in Africa and Asia. Inculturation is the encounter or dialogue between the Christian message and cultures. The study sought to investigate the inculturation of women.s...
The study sought to examine the care provided to the aged in old people’s homes in Zambia and implications for Adult Education programmes. The objectives of the study were to establish factors that led to the aged moving to old people’s homes in Zambia, assess services provided to the aged in old...
The study evaluated community and school partnerships in the learning of children with and without disabilities in inclusive primary school settings in Kasama District, Zambia. Working within the framework of the Ecological Model of Child Development, the purpose of the study was to establish the...
Download PDF ↓The main purpose of this study was to the identify differential effects of child-characteristics on early literacy and numeracy skill-attainment (in the first grade) at selected low and high-performing schools in the Northern province of Zambia. The study sought to establish the interplay and...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of this study was to establish whether or not the English language teacher education curriculum at the University of Zambia had the relevant knowledge and skills for teaching English language in Zambian secondary schools and can produce a quality teacher of English language despite...
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly infectious and devastating disease of livestock that has affected Zambia’s potential to boost the economy through trade in livestock commodities. The inadequate understanding, due to limited research based epidemiology data, of the disease dynamics has...
Download PDF ↓Unfamiliarity with the language of teaching is blamed for the high illiteracy rate among people who live in nations in which hundreds of languages are spoken. For a critical test of the importance of the language in which initial reading is taught we took the Zambian situation as a natural...
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and predictors of grand parental involvement, predictors of intergenerational transmission and quality of childcare by grandparents in Zambia. Grandparents are an important part of kin relationships participating in care of...
Download PDF ↓Today approximately one-and-half billion people around the world, especially in the developing world, use biomass based source of energy for cooking and heating. Conversion efficiency of the biomass in many cases is low resulting in unsustainable use of the biomass resource and negative...
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